Lip Service on tour

Press, 14 August 1980, Page 14

Lip Service on tour

Lip Service, the Auckland group which has just j-eleased. its .' debut album on the CBS label, is in Christchurch for two weeks. The band will be featured at the Hillsborough Tavern for three nights from this evening, and will play again at the venue from August 20 to August 23. The shows are part of a national tour which started on August 7 at the Lion Gardens Tavern,

Dunedin, and will finish on September 20 at the Gisborne Hotel. Other dates include the Terminus Hotel, Timaru, - on August 18, and the Rutherford Hotel, Nelson, - from August 25 to ?Bigust 27. Because of recording commitments the band was unable to play at the Hillsborough Tavern last evening. Lip Service go back three years, but the present four-piece lihe-up has only been together for

a year. The drummer, Peter Warren, and the lead guitarist,. David Marshall, are the remains of the.original Lip Service. The newcomers are Brian O’Donnell, on bass, and the guitarist, Rob Guy, formerly of Berlin. The band played the Auckland pub circuit in 1979, and the heavy workload paid off when -John Hood, Radio Hauraki’s top disc jockey, talked John McCready, and Terry Con-

, don, of CBS New Zealand, i into listening to. the band. The outcome was that Lip Service signed a longterm contract with CBS. The debut album, “Lip Service,” was produced by . Graham Myhre, a New Zealander, who has just ; returned from a lengthy stay in the United States ■ and Europe. His engineeri ing credits include David > Bowie’s "Stage,” and the i latest album by Gary ■ Numan.